Yukon First Nation an innovating trail builder – Northern Ontario Business
The entrepreneurial spirit of Carcross, Yukon should not be underestimated. It was the community’s Tlingit people who first struck the gold that sparked the Klondike Gold Rush, after all.
Justin Ferbey is the great-nephew of one of the discoverers, and spoke in Sudbury, Jan. 7, to share lessons his community has learned about economic development since that 1896 discovery.
Ferbey described how Carcross developed a strategy to tackle the cycle of dependency they faced. Their goal, he said, was “to build a private sector economy in Carcross that [would] create a sustainable flow of job and business opportunities for the community, our citizens and the region.”
